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description: "Products are items or services that businesses sell to their customers. Learn about the available features and guides."
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# Products

Products are items or services that businesses sell to their customers. This overview introduces the available features related to products.

:::note

💡 Not a developer? Check out the [Products user guide](../../user-guide/products/manage.mdx).

:::

## Features

### Products Management

Admins can manage unlimited amount of products and their variants. They can manage the product’s details including their pricing, inventory, and more.

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### Product Organization

Admins can organize products into categories, collections, tags, types, and more.

Customers can use this organization to filter products while browsing them.

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### Product Import and Export

Admins can bulk import and export products using CSV files. This facilitates moving data from other ecommerce platforms to Medusa.

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    label: 'User Guide: Export',
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## Understand the Architecture

Learn how product-related entities are build, their relation to other modules, and more.

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    type: 'link',
    href: '/modules/products/categories',
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## Related Modules

Discover Products’ relation to other modules in Medusa

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  },
  {
    type: 'link',
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    label: 'Price Lists',
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      icon: Icons['currency-dollar'],
      description: 'Override prices of products based on specific conditions.',
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    type: 'link',
    href: '/modules/gift-cards/overview',
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      description: 'Gift cards can be sold as Products.',
    }
  },
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    type: 'link',
    href: '/modules/carts-and-checkout/overview',
    label: 'Carts and Checkout',
    customProps: {
      icon: Icons['shopping-cart-solid'],
      description: 'Allow customers to purchase your products.'
    }
  },
  {
    type: 'link',
    href: '/modules/orders/overview',
    label: 'Orders',
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      icon: Icons['check-circle-solid'],
      description: 'Product purchases can be managed as orders.'
    }
  },
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